But what do you do when you live along the Highway 16 corridor in northwestern British Columbia? There’s no public transportation, passenger trains are few and far between, and buses offer limited service. Delphine and Ramona are now statistics, numbered among the 1,200 or so Indigenous women estimated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to have been missing or murdered between 1980 and 2012. In THE BOURBON KING: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius (Diversion, 389 pp., $27.99), Bob Batchelor makes this flashy bootlegger sound like a folk hero. Dazzling the jury with his high jinks, he saved his obviously guilty client from the gallows.

Source: International New York Times October 25, 2019 09:00 UTC